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Government policies that attempt to alleviate credit constraints faced by small and young firms are widely adopted across countries. We study the aggregate impact of such targeted credit subsidies in a heterogeneous firm model with collateral constraints and endogenous entry and exit. A defining...
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Access to external finance is a major obstacle for small and young firms; thus, providing subsidized credit to small and young firms is a widely-used policy option across countries. We study the impact of such targeted policies on aggregate output and productivity and highlight indirect general...
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allocation. The model provides a cautionary counterpoint to one of the most popular arguments against the regulation of pay, i …
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This paper advances understanding of the relationship between tax policy and productivity, taking advantage of unique data from the Dominican Republic to document a significant negative impact of tax regulations on total factor productivity (TFP). It begins by estimating productivity using...
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competitiveness and sufficiently separates individuals who choose different effort levels, the market allocation is Pareto superior to … a social planner’s allocation. We construct a specific market game that naturally generates robust equilibria with these …
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Many water allocation agreements in transboundary river basins are inherently unstable. Due to stochastic river flow …, agreements may be broken in case of drought. The objective of this paper is to analyse whether water allocation agreements can be … self-enforcing. An agreement is modelled as the outcome of bargaining game on river water allocation. Given this agreement …
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